Due to Ray White's injured hand/wrist this show was going to be just KVH but Ray showed up anyway and though he was unable to play guitar he was in rare form this night --- doing some improv lyrics and other stream of (un)conciousness banter that has to be heard to be believed. Check it out !

3/21/03: every single track on this show has a sector boundary error. I'm working to correct this & will upload a correct version next week.

3/25/03: Click here for the new seed in FLAC format with all sbes corrected.

This show is good to have for historical puposes; here's a quote explaining why from Rich Selleseth: "Show was booked as Steve Kimock Trio due to Ray falling and breaking his arm. Sign in lobby of inn had it [advertised] as Trio when we arrived. Ray ended up showing up anyhow and improvising lyrics to otherwise instrumentals in addition to KVHW tunes with lyrics."

Boy, did he ever. It seems like he was trying to make up for the fact that he couldn't contribute guitar comping by singing and joking around in excess, even by his standards. As a Zappa freak, I am a Ray White fan, but this is too much. I also think he oversang throughout his tenure with KVHW, so take this review with a grain of salt.

As far as the recording itself, it's an excellent audience recording. I would have loved to hear what those old Neumanns would have sounded like on stage, it would have at least marginalized the annoying vocals.

Again, this show is an anomaly, but other than that fact there is no good reason to download this one. There are much better KVHW sets out there.